Seagate vs. Samsung vs. Western Digital HDD's

Which is going to offer the best reliability? All offer latency and seek times well within what I need, and all are 16MB cache, and all are priced the same. The WD & Samsung are 500GB whereas the Seagate is only 400GB. I could suffer the 100GB loss if the Seagate is the best option for durability.

Ever tried the Samsungs? HDD's is one place I've never used a Samsung product, but I've been satisfied with them in every other realm.

I would tend to lean towards the WD's over the Seagates, as "back in the day" of my PC repair, I replaced more Seagates rather than WD's, but that's not to say that the OEM's weren't putting a higher percentage of SG's in than WD's.

I've used all three, sold and serviced all three (and I'm talking in the hundreds and hundreds of drives).

Without a doubt, the WD is the biggest curse of the bunch. Samsung? Meh, they're ok. Some models are very fast and reliable, some are just "meh". The Seagate is definitely the champ overall.

EDIT: When I say "WD" I mean the Caviar and Caviar SE. They are just junk. The RE and the Raptors are really good, although I can't say I'm overly ga ga over this RaptorX that I use in mine. In my own puter I have a RaptorX, Raptor and SE. The SE is total garbage, but I haven't had the time to swap it out yet.

I've always bought western digital because they seem to be cheaper and I've never had a problem with one. You get more storage for the price. I've never bought a seagate but I've heard nothing but positive feedback about them.

I think those are all good hd, but because a bad past experience with seagate (really 5x give me a headache even i have to switch mb just to know that the problem is from the hd it self even more after i change the hd to the distributor several times and the problem still exist), i dont want to rely on it anymore.
Now i use western digital and its solid and reliable until now.
My vote is western digital.

After reading about Serial Advanced Technology Attachment processing speeds versus Parallel Advanced Technology Attachments, I think the biggest advantage is the SATA cable size over the PATA. PATA ribbon cables may have an adverse effect on cooling as they are bulky and can obstruct the flow of air.